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Mother

7.8 157 mins Drama   1991
TF1 Films Production   Quinta Communications  
Director(s): Henri Verneuil

Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.

Casts of Mother

Claudia Cardinale

as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Omar Sharif

as Hagop Zakarian

Nathalie Roussel

as Gayane

Jacky Nercessian

as Apkar

Richard Berry

as Pierre Zakar (voice only)

Cédric Doucet

as Azad age 7

Tom Ponsin

as Azad age 12

Stéphane Servais

as Azad age 20

Serge Avédikian

as Vaksen Papasian

Michèle Bardollet

as Madeleine

Christian Barbier

as Father Pignon

Patrick Timsit

as Garbis, locksmith

Nicolas Silberg

as Lawyer

Denis Podalydès

as Soghomon Tehlirian

Jean-Pierre Delage

as Doctor Philibert

André Julien

as Monsieur Anzani

Ticky Holgado

as Zakarians' angry and racist neighbor

Jean Panisse

as Butcher

Paulette Frantz

as Madame Pellegrin, concierge

Bernard Freyd

as Doctor Lehimberg

Philippe Morier-Genoud

as Prosecutor

Pierre-Olivier Faïs

as Alexandre age 7

Sébastien Rochelle

as Vartanian

Georges Wilson

as (uncredited)

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